Douglas considered himself very understanding of Kismet, “Are you complaining to me about not returning ‘you’ to you all this time?”

“Yes.” Kismet said lazily.

“Don’t worry, after completing my goal, I’ll make you whole again.”

Kismet’s fingers stopped, and the puppets downstairs also ceased their movements shortly after the music stopped.

“Then please rest assured, I will definitely complete all the… Storm Eyes before the day you need to achieve your goal.”

Facing Kismet’s discontented complaints, Douglas just smiled and shook his head, but didn’t actually urge Kismet.

What consequences would arise from failing to complete the tasks he assigned—Kismet, being a clever person, understood very clearly.

He no longer concerned himself with Kismet, instead thinking about what would happen after today.

“Those who should leave have left. Those who want to survive are probably unable to hold back much longer.”

“No rush, no rush, I’ll send you a big feast right away.”

…

In the underground base, Corey stood by the pool imprisoning the red worm queen, staring blankly in a daze.

She was one of the few who guessed that she wouldn’t be taken away by Council Chairman Alick. Guessing was one thing, but she couldn’t publicize it, otherwise high-rank wizards had plenty of ways to make sure you could never speak again. The most update n0vels are published on 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⟡𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚⟡𝘯𝘦𝘵

So each successful practical experiment meant getting closer to the day when those high-rank wizards would leave.

Tonight Corey felt particularly restless, so she returned to the worm queen’s location.

Because mental power couldn’t be dispersed here, it actually made people feel peaceful at heart.

But after less than a few minutes of calm, Corey suddenly sensed someone approaching the warehouse. She immediately turned around and picked up a control panel from the nearby experimental table.

Since mental power couldn’t be used here, many magical tools had been prepared for protection.

“Wizard Corey, what’s wrong?”

Naturally, Corey couldn’t be the only person in such an important warehouse. As soon as she moved, other wizards immediately inquired about the situation.

“Someone seems to have entered. But there’s been no message from above.”

Upon hearing this, the others immediately sprang into action. The worm queen was an important resource, and even though they didn’t think anyone would dare offend the Stargate Council’s interests, they couldn’t let their guard down.

“Wizard Corey.” Before long, a somewhat unfamiliar wizard opened the stairs and walked down.

The other party even had the secret key to enter underground, so they should be someone sent by the council.

It’s just that Corey hadn’t seen them much before.

“Wizard Corey, hello.” The newcomer was a quite pretty witch with brown curly hair lazily hanging down to her calves, “I’m Madeline. Master Meurich sent me to check on the worm queen’s condition.”

Red worm queens preferred the aura of witches, so the wizards who went underwater to soothe the worm queen were generally witches.

People like Saul could also go underwater to approach the red worm queen, but frequent contact would make the worm queen irritable.

“Usually it’s another wizard who comes.”

“Hmm~ She’s been quite busy lately. I have an introduction letter from Wizard Meurich here.”

Madeline drew out a piece of paper folded four times from her chest, flicking her finger to toss it toward Corey.

Corey raised her hand to catch the note, maintaining proper vigilance, grasping one corner of the paper and gently shaking it to unfold the entire letter.

She quickly scanned the content, focusing on the compound magical runes and miniature magical arrays at the end.

“No problems, it’s Wizard Meurich’s personal letter.”

Corey handed the letter to a nearby wizard apprentice for filing, then stepped forward to welcome Madeline, “Sorry, we didn’t receive advance notice, so we verified it several times.”

Madeline smiled warmly, completely unbothered, “No problem, the council’s interests come first. I don’t mind waiting.”

Corey led Madeline toward the pool water, “Do you need to go underwater for observation?”

“Yes. Don’t worry, I know all the rules. I absolutely won’t use mental power for observation.”

Although this was Madeline’s first time coming, she was obviously very familiar with the procedures.

She walked to the pool’s edge, removed her outermost wizard robe, revealing a somewhat sexy fitted short shirt and long pants underneath.

Then she lightly leaped and dove into the murky pool water.

Corey watched from the side, not asking what Madeline wanted to observe. After all, aside from maintaining the worm queen’s stability, Corey wasn’t qualified to know about other important experiments.

After all, she was a wizard affiliated with the Glare Family.

Underwater, Madeline opened her eyes, looking at the giant egg before her, the corners of her mouth slightly lifting, but suddenly a small syringe appeared in her hand. The syringe contained a small amount of black liquid that swayed slightly with Madeline’s movements.

“Inject today, and there’ll be a reaction in ten days. Hmph, by then we’ll have already left the stargate, so let them deal with the crazed worm queen.”

The red worm queen was neither a material body nor a mental body, making it difficult for ordinary potions to affect it. But the Stargate Council had captured the worm queen for so many years and studied it for so long, naturally they had some methods of their own.

The potion in Madeline’s hand wasn’t ordinary liquid either. The liquid was just the surface carrier for transmission—inside was a trace of shocked, fearful malicious thoughts.

Just this trace of malicious thoughts, if released in a city of ordinary people, would be enough to directly drive an entire city mad, turning them into thoughtless, irrational killers.

Whether brothers and sisters, parents and children, beloved friends and family—they could all bite each other’s throats without hesitation.

As long as she injected this trace of malicious thoughts into the worm queen’s eggshell interior, the worm queen would gradually go mad under the influence of the malicious thoughts. It would forget its primary duty of laying eggs and only think about killing all living creatures before it.

And this was a little lesson for those who didn’t respect the Stargate Council.

The syringe gradually approached the giant egg, the sharp needle piercing into the eggshell’s interior. Just as Madeline was about to push the potion—

Suddenly, time seemed to freeze. Madeline felt her heartbeat suddenly stop, and the water ripples around her no longer undulated.

She looked down at her hands, wanting to think, but her brain provided no feedback.

It seemed like a second had passed, or perhaps a very long time, before Madeline finally regained her perception of time.

“What just happened?” She was somewhat bewildered, fear of the unknown beginning to well up in her heart.

She suddenly discovered that her hand had somehow changed position. The syringe that had originally pierced the giant egg had moved with her hand to her neck area, with the needle tip already piercing her throat.

“What?”

The confused Madeline didn’t have time to feel surprised before her fingers followed their original inertia and pushed the syringe.

“Hiss—”

Madeline’s eyes instantly turned red, and her expression became ferocious.

“I’ve been infected by malicious thoughts! I need to quickly leave and use mental stabilization techniques outside!”

Mental power couldn’t be used in the white warehouse, which was also why Meurich chose to use malicious thoughts to destroy the worm queen.

But now Madeline had injected this trace of malicious thoughts into her own body. If she wanted to quickly resolve these malicious thoughts, she had to go outside the warehouse.

The plan had failed for unknown reasons.

She was very frustrated, not knowing how to face Meurich later. But fortunately, this potion had deliberately controlled the dosage—it would take ten days to completely affect the worm queen, but only one hour to affect Madeline.

That much time was enough for Madeline to run outside the warehouse, and she could even make it back to the Star Observatory Tower.

However, just as she was about to swim to the surface, she suddenly felt as if a mouth had grown inside her brain.

That mouth had pitch-black teeth and a crimson tongue. The uvula at the deepest part of the oral cavity continuously trembled under the impact of air.

[I want to eat, I want to eat you! I want to eat everything before me!]

As this furious thought arose, Madeline’s originally bloodshot eyes instantly became pitch-black as if ink had been dropped into them.

“I want to eat, I want to eat you! I want to eat everything before me!”

Madeline used all her strength to open her mouth, the corners instantly tearing.

However, just as she was about to jump out of the pool, another scene suddenly appeared before her eyes.

It was an arched door, inside which was a constantly changing multicolored world. The world seemed to contain eerie figures. But those figures were all entangled together, as if glued into a mass by some adhesive, unable to separate.

Just as Madeline was temporarily suppressing her rage due to the strange scene before her, those figures stuck together suddenly approached the arched door, extending colorful fingers to grab at the bewildered Madeline.

A few seconds later, Madeline’s corpse floated to the surface.

Corey, who had been standing by the pool observing underwater with her naked eyes, immediately changed expression.

“Someone come! Wizard Madeline… is dead. Quickly notify the council!”

(End of Chapter)

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